Enigma - The Cage I Chose

Title: The Cage I Chose

Description: I held its small weight so long I forgot it was never mine to keep. Now my hand opens, and the branch takes back what I borrowed — a wing, a song, a freedom I mistook for company. The sea says nothing. The mountains keep their old silence. I stand between letting go and missing already, my empty palm still curved around the shape of something I loved enough to release.

-- Dimensions: 75 × 100 × 2.5 cm
-- Mounting: Professionally hand-stretched on a wooden chassis.
-- Framing: None (no external frame); painted edges ready for display.
-- Medium: Premium artists' oil colors on fine canvas.
-- Style: Narrative Surrealism with a smooth brush texture.
-- Authentication: Signed 'Enigma' on reverse with title and year.
-- Condition: Pristine; dispatched from studio-affiliated workshop.
-- COA: Hand-signed Certificate of Authenticity included.
-- Shipping: Custom protective packaging; Catawiki Smart Shipping with full tracking and insurance.

About the Artist
Enigma is an Italian surrealist who paints their own likeness into worlds of pure imagination — not to tell a story, but to ask a question. The figures are deliberately genderless, blending masculine and feminine so no single identity stands between the viewer and the canvas. Reality bends through frames within frames: rooms open onto other rooms, other skies, other selves, rendered in smooth, luminous brushwork and blocks of bold, contrasting color. Each painting is a dreamscape where memory, symbol, and self dissolve into one another — and every canvas is one of a kind, never repeated.